A group of children stand for a photograph outside their school house. It is winter, and snow is on the ground. The children are wearing coats and hats, and the boy on the right in the photograph holds a snow ball.

Portrait of Catherine Pasonault's profile. She is wearing a blouse and has her hair up. Catherine (Callahan) Pasonault was born August 28, 1876 in Ireland, married J.E. Pasonault, and died on November 9, 1944.

A man stands in the doorway of the Great Northern Livery Feed & Sale Stable. Several carts are parked outside the building. Another shop or store is visible across the street. Snow is on the ground on this winter day.

A portrait of Florence Mae Wilson, the eldest of two daughters born to George and Clara Jane Wilson. Florence Mae Wilson was born in Willliston in 1889. Florence was married twice, once from 1915 to 1929 to a man named Bemis and again from...

Workers pause from laying bricks at an unidentified location in Palermo, North Dakota. Two horses pull a cart which reads "Block Mfg. Co." Unfortunately, none of the men in the photograph can be identified.

A view of a parade processing down Main Street in Williston. A man on horseback waving a flag is leading the procession. Band members, and horse-drawn carts can be seen proceeding down the street. Spectators have lined up outside businesses on the...

A view of the Greengard Bros. Store in the Heffernan Building. Dr. M. Myklestad ran a practice from the upstairs floor, and his signs are posted on the building. Two dogs hoping to be fed are looking into the storefront windows.

Perhaps the most prominent of any of the old-time surveyors who worked in North Dakota was Erastus Appleman Williams. A biographical sketch written during the early 1920s eulogized him as follows: "No one man of North Dakota accomplished so much of...

F.P. Bergman, "the land man" poses with his new Jackson "6" in a rural setting. The Jackson was one of the first autos to be sold in Williston. It was advertised as "the big car that stands the test of time." Bergman sits beside an unidentified...

A man stands in the doorway of the Great Northern Livery Feed & Sale Stable. Several carts are parked outside the building. Another shop or store is visible across the street. Snow is on the ground on this winter day.

Two men, likely members of the Greengard family, pose in the doorway of their clothing and shoe store. The post card says that their store was located in Bottineau. They may have had a Bottineau store in addition to the Williston store, but the...

A view of the North Dakota Horse and Cattle Company. Several other buildings are visible.Men in a horse drawn cart are rolling past the foreground of the photograph. This photograph may have been taken in Wheelock, N.D.

A view of the the corner of Main Street and Broadway Avenue. The Farmer's and Merchant's Bank is visible on the left side of the photograph. People are walking on the streets and sidewalks. Several horse drawn carts and wagons are also traversing...